https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2005/winter/von-trapps-html
Movie vs. Reality: The Real Story of the Von Trapp Family
The National Archives
Fact from Fiction While The Sound of Music was generally based on the first section of Maria’s book The Story of the Trapp Family Singers (published in 1949), there were many alterations and omissions.
Maria came to the von Trapp family in 1926 as a tutor for one of the children, Maria, who was recovering from scarlet fever, not as governess to all the children.
Maria and Georg married in 1927, 11 years before the family left Austria, not right before the Nazi takeover of Austria.
The family did not secretly escape over the Alps to freedom in Switzerland, carrying their suitcases and musical instruments. As daughter Maria said in a 2003 interview printed in Opera News, “We did tell people that we were going to America to sing. And we did not climb over mountains with all our heavy suitcases and instruments. We left by train, pretending nothing.”
The von Trapps traveled to Italy, not Switzerland. Georg was born in Zadar (now in Croatia), which at that time was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Zadar became part of Italy in 1920, and Georg was thus an Italian citizen, and his wife and children as well. The family had a contract with an American booking agent when they left Austria. They contacted the agent from Italy and requested fare to America.
I Edward Paul Donegan have ridden by train in those same Alps traveling between Switzerland, Austria and Italy with my parents James and Glorian and my brother Tom.
The Ford Turino and is a namesake for the mounainous roads and railways that pass in Italy where the Shroud of Turin was found.. It was these classic Bavarian and Central European families that the NAZIS want to play up in the press.
Yodeling (also jodeling) is a form of singing which involves repeated and rapid changes of pitch between the low-pitch chest register (or “chest voice”) and the high-pitch head register or falsetto. The English word yodel is derived from the German word jodeln, meaning “to utter the syllable jo” (pronounced “yo” in English). This vocal technique is used in many cultures worldwide. Recent scientific research concerning yodeling and non-Western cultures has shown that music and speech evolved from a common prosodic precursor. -wikipedia
Alpine yodeling was a longtime rural tradition in Europe, and became popular in the 1830s as entertainment in theaters and music halls. In Europe, yodeling is still a major feature of folk music (Volksmusik) from Bavaria and can be heard in many contemporary folk songs, which are also featured on regular TV broadcasts.
From that same article on the Von Trapp Family writtenb by in the National Archives is thess sentences. “Though she was a caring and loving person, Maria wasn’t always as sweet as the fictional Maria. She tended to erupt in angry outbursts consisting of yelling, throwing things, and slamming doors. Her feelings would immediately be relieved and good humor restored, while other family members, particularly her husband, found it less easy to recover. In her 2003 interview, the younger Maria confirmed that her stepmother ‘had a terrible temper. . . . And from one moment to the next, you didn’t know what hit her. We were not used to this. But we took it like a thunderstorm that would pass, because the next minute she could be very nice.'”
This is the Borderline Personality disorder of volatility.
It appears the three children who are still not discussed arrived first in North Carolina and were the Maria Kutschera Windsor children and those children arrived in 1926 and were most probably born here Maria moved by the underground railroad of the Pesbyatarian church from the Convent to give bith in the USA. The 7 Barraon Von Trapnp children would follow to Austria at a much later data but move to the same location Raliegh area Noth Carolina.
Also note “The names, ages, and sexes of the children were changed” and as the Hidden Identities piece comes from Jen Moore and myself you will see my mother lived and was born in the USA under a hidden identity created in 1926 to conceal and even whitewash some of that families history.
I also suggest the “Scarlet Fever” Maria Kutschera was recovering from may have been the difficulties of pregnancy and she was found non Convent housing by her Uncle Franz Kutschera with Barron Von Trapp and Franz Kutshcera and Himmler went about their plans
The Scarlet Letter a book set in Boston provide an insight to the indignity a mother might face of pregnancy from an unkown.
In Puritan Boston, Massachusetts, a crowd gathers to witness the punishment of Hester Prynne, a young woman who has given birth to a baby of unknown paternity. Her sentence requires her to stand on the scaffold for three hours, exposed to public humiliation, and to wear a scarlet “A” for the rest of her life. As Hester approaches the scaffold, many of the women in the crowd are angered by her beauty and quiet dignity. When commanded and cajoled to name the father of her child, Hester refuses.
Examination of the data on Jen Moore’s YouTube Channel Task Force reveals she knew Military Intelligence wanted Capt Von Trapp PsyOps family of Nasisnm Defectors from Nazi PsyOps into US Army and OSS and CIA PsyOps propaganda having fled the Nazism as children they were told to sing for.
The German language version of the Von Trapp Signers in the late 1950s is more open about Fanz Kutschera and the Von Trapp Singers on stage together annd shows Maria Kutschera making biblicly verboteen sexual impropriety references sliding down the stairway handrails legs spread and at the bottom with an apple her Bible dropped when she lands and then trouble with the other sisters.
Donald Barr and the CIA and OSS knew all about Franz Kutschera, the Von Trapp SIngers, and the hidden identifies and Donald Barr would make use of this family line still exploring the propagation of Borderline Personality Disorder and also still being close to the Windsors, Dr. Cameron, and other British psychiatry that Donald Barr of the CIA was central in from WWII Intelligence.
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